Noun: port
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | port |
| Plural m | ports |
Sample Sentences
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[…]la mère Rolet réclama le port d'une vingtaine de lettres; et, comme Charles demandait des explications, elle eut la délicatesse de répondre: […]. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:]
Nouns inflected like port
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”). See: Latin Nouns '
portus'.
Verbs referencing "port"
Dutch Nouns
port, Romanian Nouns
port, Ukrainian Nouns
порт.
Translations